Miscellany 21 Jun 2007 03:12 pm
come now…this is just ridiculously brilliant.
AS IF I needed any other goading to dream of mac-ownership! Dreaming of technological items is not something I typically do…however… the iphone is just about beyond imagination. Feature after feature led to surprised gasping… how do they DO that? It reminds of me of days in childhood spent in a corner of the living room, behind Daddy’s recliner, with a cardboard box and “inventing” something with powers just because it made sense to me…nevermind if anything could actually do it. Somewhere, somehow, I imagine some creative thinkers threw out “the box” and just said, “what do we want it to do?” rather than “what will current technology let us do?”
The only question the news story didn’t answer for me is, “how durable is that touch screen around small children????”
on 21 Jun 2007 at 3:48 pm 1.Sandy said …
Tell. Me. About. It. I found myself with jaw open (literally) at the end of the commercial the other night. I knew it would be exceptional coming from Apple but I had no idea it would be like this. Lovely little piece of technology indeed. One day, maybe.
This from the Apple site about the touch screen durability:
“Apple also announced that the entire top surface of iPhone, including its stunning 3.5-inch display, has been upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity.”
Leave it to Apple.
on 21 Jun 2007 at 5:04 pm 2.MrPages said …
I’m still wondering about the flat glass screen thing. I like having tangible buttons to click and feel. It’s like that keyboard that just projects the images of a keyboard on your desk and then senses your fingers: it seems like a great idea, but doesn’t pull off quite so well in practice.
The concept of a purely software phone is great, but we’ll see how it stands up to market.
Maybe I’m just coming up with excuses because I know I’ll never own one…